20 Remakes and Remasters That Are Worse Than The Original

14. Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop (2009)

Capcom’s Dead Rising is one of the games that helped make the Xbox 360 competitive against the PlayStation 3 back in 2006. Offering up zombie carnage in the mode of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, we play as photojournalist Frank West, who is trapped inside a shopping mall in Willamette, Colorado during a zombie apocalypse.

And what can be said except that it’s all-out, open world (or, open mall) zombie-bashing fun. Sure, there’s a story and a mystery element to it, but most of us would be lying if we said we were there for more than a zombie smash-a-thon.

A remake for the Wii in 2009, then, was welcomed with open palms, but things didn’t go as planned. Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop was damned by limitations from the outset, due to the console's weaker hardware, as this is a downgrade from the game's native 360. The maps are smaller, the enemies fewer, the photo system gone. Sure, you can use the Wii remote to aim, but what we have to sacrifice for this is just not worth it.

Thankfully, things have finally been rectified some fifteen years later with the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, with new mechanics like the ability to move whilst shooting; excellent new voice acting; and the improved graphics we would expect from a remaster, including some very impressive work on the character models.